单词 | palourde |
释义 | palourden. Esp. in French cookery: an edible carpet shell or Venus clam (genus Venerupis). Cf. pullet n. 3, purr n.4In quot. 1861 as a mass noun: the flesh of these molluscs as food. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Veneridae Venus-shell1589 hena1613 sea-snapple1658 clam1672 clamp1672 nun1678 purr?1711 Venus purr1713 Venus1777 quahog1781 palourde1823 littleneck1854 venerid1861 1763 tr. A. Le Page du Pratz Hist. Louisiana II. iii. iv. 32 Cockle Island, so called, because almost entirely formed of the shells, named Coquilles des Palourdes.] 1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 505 The preludial repast..is subdivided..into two courses. In the first, figured les urchins, oysters, palourdes, spondyli, thrushes, pullets and asparagus, and sea acorns. 1861 J. Redpath Guide to Hayti 41 There are various varieties of shell-fish, including conches, periwinkles, pearl-oysters..and palourde. 1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 946 The resistance of the palourdes in the Vichy water shows the favorable action of salts of soda on the preservation of life in marine animals. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 189 Sampling eagerly the oysters, clams, palourdes, cockles, mussels, snails, razor-fish or sea-urchins. 1976 Times 2 Oct. 10/2 Palourdes on a buttery spinach puree. 1998 Independent on Sunday 4 Jan. (Review Suppl.) 47/2 Why would anyone want to put..palourde clams and Scottish rope-grown mussels in a sweet pepper and tomato sauce? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823 |
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